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·At this stage, I’ll add my anecdotal data point on Rolex SS:
In December of 2017, I was in Las Vegas with my wife and we spent the weekend looking for a watch for her. This is just after the SS Sky-Dweller was released, and I was interested to fiddle with one in the metal. So, while looking all over Vegas over a 3 day period for her, I’d ask any Rolex AD/boutique if they had one on hand - received hard “nos” or polite winces. So much so, I stopped even asking after the first day.
Until the final day. We were at the last Rolex boutique/AD in town (there are a lot in Vegas). As my wife was considering a watch, three very young, very brash, d-bags walked in and nearly elbowed my (pregnant) wife out of the way to ask our sales-woman if they had any SS Sky-Dwellers. She politely replied, “No, sir, I’m sorry,” and the three d-bags huffed out.
At which point she turned back to my wife and I and whispered, “Actually, we have one in the back, but I’m not selling it to those as*holes.”
But she did sell it to me.
HOWEVER, here is how a shlub like me was able to purchase the “it” SS Rolex at that time: as it happens, that boutique had just the week before been purchased by a company in Europe, and as a result of the turnover still being incomplete the salespeople “did not yet have the ability to make sales or take payments over the phone” (her words). So, “we would have normally all gone down our telephone lists of preferred out-of-town buyers and sold it within an hour, but instead we’re kind of stuck having to instead draw names out of a hat each day for which of us gets a chance to sell it ‘in person’.” So, my wife and I both walked out with watches that day.
But for my part, it took more than just a little luck. (1) There was probably only a single SS Sky-Dweller in all of Las Vegas that wasn’t otherwise slated for a telephone/preferred buyer; (2) only bc the salespersons at this boutique were, for that specific week, unable to sell by telephone; (3) perhaps the saleswoman only let us in on the existence of the watch because the 3 d-bags nearly shoulder-checked my pregnant wife, and she felt sentimental towards us (thanks, d-bags?); (4) further, it may have been that the saleswoman thought it could get us over the hump on purchasing a hard-to-unload lady’s precious metal unit (it did).
It’s my only Rolex (so far), and I wear it a LOT. (My wife’s was stolen last year )
In December of 2017, I was in Las Vegas with my wife and we spent the weekend looking for a watch for her. This is just after the SS Sky-Dweller was released, and I was interested to fiddle with one in the metal. So, while looking all over Vegas over a 3 day period for her, I’d ask any Rolex AD/boutique if they had one on hand - received hard “nos” or polite winces. So much so, I stopped even asking after the first day.
Until the final day. We were at the last Rolex boutique/AD in town (there are a lot in Vegas). As my wife was considering a watch, three very young, very brash, d-bags walked in and nearly elbowed my (pregnant) wife out of the way to ask our sales-woman if they had any SS Sky-Dwellers. She politely replied, “No, sir, I’m sorry,” and the three d-bags huffed out.
At which point she turned back to my wife and I and whispered, “Actually, we have one in the back, but I’m not selling it to those as*holes.”
But she did sell it to me.
HOWEVER, here is how a shlub like me was able to purchase the “it” SS Rolex at that time: as it happens, that boutique had just the week before been purchased by a company in Europe, and as a result of the turnover still being incomplete the salespeople “did not yet have the ability to make sales or take payments over the phone” (her words). So, “we would have normally all gone down our telephone lists of preferred out-of-town buyers and sold it within an hour, but instead we’re kind of stuck having to instead draw names out of a hat each day for which of us gets a chance to sell it ‘in person’.” So, my wife and I both walked out with watches that day.
But for my part, it took more than just a little luck. (1) There was probably only a single SS Sky-Dweller in all of Las Vegas that wasn’t otherwise slated for a telephone/preferred buyer; (2) only bc the salespersons at this boutique were, for that specific week, unable to sell by telephone; (3) perhaps the saleswoman only let us in on the existence of the watch because the 3 d-bags nearly shoulder-checked my pregnant wife, and she felt sentimental towards us (thanks, d-bags?); (4) further, it may have been that the saleswoman thought it could get us over the hump on purchasing a hard-to-unload lady’s precious metal unit (it did).
It’s my only Rolex (so far), and I wear it a LOT. (My wife’s was stolen last year )
